1984

Mechanical and routine are the words used by the American Heritage Dictionary, to define the term dehumanization. Dehumanization also means to deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility. In 1984, Big Brother, manages to take all three of these qualities away in the society which they live. Without these qualities, a person’s self worth is taken away from them and forced to obey a higher power. The state dehumanized the people because …showed first 75 words of 746 total…

…showed last 75 words of 746 total…suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own” (Orwell pg. 220)? In a totalitarian government, according to Michael Curtis, a government has total control of society for the purpose of dehumanizing. In dehumanizing a society, individual beliefs do not exist; suppressing them is the only way a person can survive. The concepts of a totalitarian system of government are so radical sometimes that dehumanizing an individual is inevitable.